Senior Director, Data and Analytics

Position: Senior Director, Data and Analytics

Organization: Cobalt Service Partners – Alpine Investors Portfolio Company

Location: Flexible (Remote within the U.S.)

Reports To: EVP, Transformation

Cobalt Service Partners Overview

Cobalt Service Partners is a private equity–backed platform building the leading commercial access and security integration business in North America. Our partner companies design, install, and service mission-critical systems including access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, and related low-voltage infrastructure for enterprise, institutional, and commercial customers.

Backed by Alpine Investors, a private equity firm specializing in middle-market companies in the services and software industries with $15B+ in AUM, Cobalt has scaled rapidly since launch. With more than 40 acquisitions completed in a highly fragmented operating environment, Cobalt is building a differentiated, data-driven platform designed to scale through both organic growth and M&A.

Cobalt’s Core Values Are

• Unwavering stewardship: We believe advancing founders’ legacies is a privilege. We do right by our founders, teams, and customers in good times and in bad.
• Excellence in action: We hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards. We’re bold in our pursuits, don’t make excuses, and relentlessly empower each other to get the job done.
• Seek and tell the truth: We’re honest with ourselves and others. We do what we say we’ll do, say what needs to be said, and search for the right answer regardless of where it comes from.
• Love learning: We’re always learning as individuals, as a team, and as a business. We show up humble, curious, and with the courage to change our minds.
• Enjoy the ride: We’re fired up by our mission, love our team, and don’t take either for granted. We show up authentically, assume best intent, and try not to take ourselves too seriously.

Position Overview

The Senior Director, Data and Analytics will define and lead the enterprise data strategy for a rapidly scaling, private equity–backed services platform. This role owns the architecture, governance, and roadmap for a modern data environment that enables reliable financial reporting, operational visibility, and scalable M&A integration across all operating companies.

This is a strategic leadership role focused on systems design, prioritization, and organizational capability-building. This individual will partner closely with Finance, Operations, and executive leadership to ensure data is a durable competitive advantage for the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Data Strategy & Architecture: Define and own the long-term data architecture and tooling strategy across ingestion, warehouse, transformation, BI, and governance layers to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Metric Governance & Standardization: Establish and enforce canonical KPI definitions and governance processes to ensure consistency, auditability, and enterprise-wide trust in reporting.
• Platform Scaling & M&A Integration: Design and implement a repeatable data integration framework that accelerates onboarding of new acquisitions and improves speed-to-insight across the platform.
• Vendor & Platform Management: Oversee external data engineering partners, technology vendors, platform spend, and SLAs to ensure performance and cost efficiency.
• Executive Partnership: Serve as the primary